Research Core Members
Jeanne Miranda, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute
Box 957082
Suite 300
UCLA Wilshire Center
10920 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90095-7082
Phone: 310-794-3710
Fax: 310-794-3724
mirandaj@ucla.eduDr. Jeanne Miranda
has a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from University of Kansas and
completed post-doctoral training at University of California San
Francisco. She is Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at
UCLA. Dr. Miranda’s major research contributions have been in
evaluating the impact of mental health care for ethnic minority
communities. Her most recent NIMH-funded trial found that short-term
care for depression was effective for low-income African American and
Latina women, many of whom had extensive histories of trauma. She was
the Senior Scientific Editor of Mental Health: Culture, Race and
Ethnicity, A Supplement to Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon
General, published August 2001.
Core Faculty
Mayer Davidson, M.D.
Center for Clinical Research Excellence in Diabetes and Metabolism
Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science
1731 East 120th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90059
Phone: (323) 357-3439
mayerdavidson@cdrewu.edu
A fellow of the American College of Physicians, Dr. Mayer Davidson is
also a member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation,
American Diabetes Association, American Federation for Clinical
Research, and The Endocrine Society, as well as other professional
organizations. He is past president of the national American Diabetes
Association and cofounder of that organization's Los Angeles chapter.
Dr. Davidson has acted as a diabetes consultant for numerous
pharmaceutical companies, and principal or co-principal investigator
for clinical studies of diabetes mellitus treatment. He has received
the Banting Medal for Distinguished Service and the Upjohn Award for
Outstanding Physician Educator in the Field of Diabetes from the
American Diabetes Association. Dr. Davidson serves on the editorial
boards of Geriatric and, Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice. He is
the founding editor of Current Diabetes Reports, editor-in-chief of
Diabetes Care, and an associate editor of Endo Trends. The author of
more than 350 articles, book chapters, reviews, editorials, and
abstracts, Dr. Davidson has lectured extensively at medical meetings,
conferences, and symposia in the United States and abroad.
Carol M. Mangione, M.D., M.S.P.H.
GIM/HSR
UCLA Med GIM & HSR, Box 951736
911 Broxton Plz
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1736
Phone :
(310) 794-2298
Fax:
(310) 794-0723
(310) 794-0766
cmangione@mednet.ucla.eduDr. Carol M. Mangione is a Professor in the
Department of Medicine of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
and is a consultant in the RAND Health Program. Dr. Mangione is the
Director of the NIA funded UCLA/Drew Resource Center for Minority Aging
Research / Center for Health Improvement of Minority Elderly and is and
Co-director of the UCLA Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program.
Dr. Mangione’s funded research focuses on the care that older Latinos
and African Americans with diabetes receive. As part of this research
agenda she is a principal investigator for a project funded by the
Centers for Disease Control to study the quality of care for persons
from ethnic and racial minority groups with diabetes in managed care
settings. Dr. Mangione is currently conducting a community-based
empowerment intervention among older Latinos and African Americans with
diabetes to improve their self-care skills and has a long-standing
interest in the relationship between visual disability, falls and
functional decline among the elderly.
Peter Mendel, Ph.D.
RAND
Associate Social Scientist
1700 Main Street
Santa Monica, CA 90407
Phone: 310.393.0411 ext.7194
Fax: 310.451.7063
mendel@rand.org
Dr. Peter Mendel,
an Associate Social Scientist at RAND, is an organizational researcher
with broad experience analyzing the dynamics of healthcare systems,
healthcare reform, and quality improvement. He co-authored a study on
institutional change and healthcare organizations in the U.S. over the
past half-century, which received best scholarly book awards in
organizational and medical sociology from the American Sociological
Association in 2001 and 2002. More recently, his research has focused
on the introduction of quality improvement in healthcare organizations,
local inter-organizational networks and coordination of care for
persons with co-morbid conditions, and the dissemination of
evidence-based health interventions within community settings. He has
also participated in cross-national research on self-help groups for
substance addictions and the organization and financing of national
health systems. Dr. Mendel received his Ph.D. in Sociology from
Stanford University.
